The Caribbean Equality Project (CEP) is New York’s only Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrant rights organization. For over a decade, the grassroots organization has been serving Afro- and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ New Yorkers and Caribbean communities through advocacy for LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights, gender equity, racial justice, immigration, and mental health services, as well as public education, community organizing, civic engagement, storytelling, and cultural programming to end hate violence in the Caribbean diaspora.

The Caribbean Equality Project was launched in 2015 by Mohamed Q. Amin in response to anti-LGBTQ hate violence in Richmond Hill, Queens. For 11 years, the organization has hosted bi-monthly healing community spaces through its Unchained support groups in Queens and Brooklyn, facilitated immigration legal services for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, curated interdisciplinary art exhibitions featuring oral histories and storytelling, combated food insecurity, organized culture-shifting programming, and built political power through civic engagement, Census outreach, redistricting, voter registration, and legislative advocacy to advance LGBTQ+ and voting rights in New York State.

Since its founding on June 26, 2015—the same day the U.S. Supreme Court legalized marriage equality—CEP has grown into a survivor-led organization providing vital resources to marginalized Caribbean LGBTQ+ individuals. Notable achievements include organizing the first international "Breaking Silences" conference in Toronto in 2018 and expanding its programs during the COVID-19 pandemic to address emerging community needs.

New York City is home to the largest Afro- and Indo-Caribbean foreign-born population in the United States, many of whom live in immigrant communities such as Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park in Queens, Flatbush and Crown Heights in Brooklyn, and Castle Hill and Wakefield in the Bronx—all Caribbean-centric neighborhoods that the Caribbean Equality Project has served for a decade. The organization's one-on-one immigration case management support provides our members with culturally and linguistically competent services, including application support for newly arrived asylum seekers, assistance with obtaining gender-affirming identification documentation, legal name changes, economic stability, housing, clothing, food, financial literacy, and sexual health and Trans healthcare.

Caribbean Equality Project's cross-racial solidarity work confronts gendered and racialized violence within Black, Asian, and Caribbean immigrant diasporic communities by fostering deeper connections across generations, nationalities, ethnicities, and gender and sexual practices and identities, as well as across the academic, artistic, and activist communities that center LGBTQ+ Caribbean people's experiences in their work.